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The Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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More than 876-million school-age children are at risk of becoming infected with potentially sight-stealing parasites.

A sight for sore eyes: Teachers test pupils’ eyes to keep them in school

Opinion Imran Khan -
Children need more than books to flourish at school. De-worming may be one of the most cost-effective ways to increase school participation in Africa.
Former miner Masiko Somi and his wife Magumede are part of the class action suit that looks to hold the gold mining industry accountable for its impacts on workers' health.

Court case could force gold industry to pay out miners’ daughters and wives

Opinion Thabang Pooe and Dean Peacock -
A high court has ruled that compensation to women who have to take care of sick miners could ease the gendered harms imposed by the industry.
Free pads or free condoms? It's a false dichotomy when people with uteruses are the ones who need both.

Free pads versus free condoms: Why we can’t afford this debate

Opinion Pontsho Pilane -
Why the debate misses the very gendered point in a country where people with uteruses remain disproportionally affected by HIV.
community healthcare workers

The ups and downs of community healthcare

Opinion Koot Kotze -
Often medical help comes too late for people in rural areas but community health workers could change this
Promising Ebola vaccines languished for years in research and development for more than a decade without funding.

Money can’t be the only motive for developing life-saving medicines

Opinion Ruth Dreifuss and Malebona Precious Matsoso -
Will the world act now to be ready for the next big outbreak?
South Africa legalised abortion decades ago but a lack of information on where to get one and health workers willing to terminate pregnancies still stand between people and safe abortions.

Medical conscientious objectors who scupper abortions deny women their rights

Opinion Indira Govender -
Conscientious objectors who refuse to perform abortions or related services for moral reasons may have become a law unto themselves.
Some lawyers literally raid schools for the disabled

Paying it forward: South Africa’s law should give all fathers and adoptive parents paid...

Opinion Wessel van den Berg -
Getting parents more involved in childcare is good for a child’s health and prospects in life. South Africa needs to get with the programme.
Patients' removal from the hospital was opposed at every step by activists and families

Life Esidimeni patient deaths are a wake up call that came too late

Opinion Charlene Sunkel and Marthe Viljoen -
The callous disregard shown at many levels for the wellbeing of vulnerable people proved fatal.
Junior doctors lives stand still as they wait to be paid after the human resource staff failed to capture their details to the payroll system on time.

A life-saving shift: New reductions in doctors’ hours are still far off the mark

Opinion Koot Kotze -
Research shows that any shift longer than 16 hours puts doctors and patients at risk.
Birth control: Which one's best for you?

Could your favourite birth control put you at risk of HIV?

Opinion Sinaye Ngcapu -
A Cape Town study could finally provide the answer to whether there is a link between the shot and HIV infection risk.

Malawi’s sick prisons: Inmates go hungry as budgets dwindle and food prices soar

Opinion Nicolette Jackson -
As a food crisis unfolds in the country, prisons lack money to purchase even simple food stuffs such as maize flour and beans.
Governments should promote accurate knowledge about breastfeeding and implement policies — like paid maternity leave — to give women the time they need to breastfeed exclusively.

Breast is best: Exclusive breastfeeding could turn Africa’s child mortality tide

Opinion Rachel Toku-Appiah -
Malnutrition is a leading cause of death in under-fives, but there’s a simple — and free — solution that could save lives.
After Malema adopted a healthy lifestyle and shed extra pounds

EFF’s Julius Malema loses extra kilos and the fat cats jeer

Opinion Pontsho Pilane -
Speculation swirled around Malema after he dropped extra kilos, showing dangerous associations between being thin and being sick still plague Africa.
Where will newly qualified doctors go if provinces are being told to scale back staff under budget pressures?

Curing a sick system: Doctors and nurses must speak out for patients and themselves

Opinion Samantha Khan Gillmore -
Medicine shouldn’t be the only thing on the books at our medical schools. Here are some tips for healthcare workers to handle abuse.
By discounting the role that poverty and inequality play in HIV

Helen, listen to Charlize. Inequality and poverty don’t cause HIV but they do fuel...

Opinion Mia Malan -
More than 30 years into the epidemic, HIV continues to hold a mirror to society and exposes our prejudices and injustices
Young men from a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal wait to be picked up by health workers working with Doctors Without Borders to undergo medical circumcision.

#AIDS2016: Medical male circumcision saves millions in lives and costs

Opinion Aaron Motsoaledi, Molotsi Monyamane and Simon Zwane -
Statistics show that voluntary male circumcision is a crucial weapon in the fight to control HIV.
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